Teleconference "Deferred medical needs due to the COVID-19 pandemic"

Almost 10 000 health care specialists from all regions of Ukraine have registered to participate in the Teleconference “Medical needs deferred as a result of pandemic COVID-19”, which took place on March 11, 2021.

Interdisciplinary format of the Teleconference was ensured by involvement of speakers from different special fields, such as: cardiologists, neurologists, critical care physicians, general practitioners, pulmonologists, and family doctors. 

Eleven main reports were offered to the participants for review and discussion and they were dealing with the following issues: 

• Deferred medical needs of patient with comorbidity. COVID crisis: no access to elective care. 
• What shall we do for the patient with diabetes mellitus in 2021? 
• What threats faces the patient with arterial hypertension during COVID-19?
• Approaches to neurological rehabilitation of patients after COVID-19.
• All roads lead back to the family doctor: focus on prevention of clinical manifests of chronic diseases. 
• Postponement of elective care: focus on patients with chronic ischemia of brain. 
• Modern approaches to correction of iron deficiency in clinic for internal medicine. 
• Iron deficiency as a relevant clinical issue in case of congestive heart failure. 
• Exacerbation of medical and social problem caused by pandemic – less control of asthma and COPD.
• Changing the paradigm of use of inhaled glucocorticosteroids. 

Didn’t see all the reports? View the video recording of the conference: